A Carl's Jr. Manager Got Banned From His Restaurant's Kitchen For Mixing BBQ Sauce With His Arms (And A Bunch Of Other Health Violations)
CBC- The co-franchisee of a Carl’s Jr. in central Alberta was temporarily barred from his own restaurant’s kitchen after a host of unhygienic behaviours that even “shocked” a public health inspector. Jack Webb was captured on in-store security video at the Red Deer restaurant without gloves, forearm deep in a large container, mixing a batch of barbecue sauce for Carl’s Jr. burgers.
That was the first of no fewer than 10 food safety violations caught on video, which was exclusively obtained by CBC News. Andrew Minnes, the former manager of the restaurant, blew the whistle on Webb to health authorities and CBC. “I’ve never seen anything like this. If he wasn’t an owner, he would have been fired instantly. There wouldn’t even have been a debate,” Minnes told CBC News from his home in Airdrie, Alta.
Look, I’m sure a lot of people are going to get on Carl’s for this video because it’s a pretty bad look. But lets be honest here. None of us are eating at fast food restaurants because everything is pristine and perfect. We go because it’s fast, it’s cheap, and it tastes good. And in the case of Carl’s, their burgers look sexy as fuck when a supermodel is eating them.
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Which is why I am not going to let this rogue owner make me cross a fast food chain off my list just because he #Mailtimed the shit out of his day. There were rumors that the lunch ladies in my high school used to mix the bug juice with their arms like this guy did with the barbecue sauce. But guess what? Everyone still drank and loved the bug juice. Because at end of the day, taste rules all. If we are eating an animal’s muscles and body parts on a daily basis, what’s the difference it touched a human arm or the floor it before it got to my mouth? And you know Carl Hardee Jr. (the owner of Carl’s Jr. and Hardees in my mind) is going to have every owner and manager under his thumb until this blows over. Eating at Carl’s is going to be like buying a house in a place that just had a tragedy hit it at a discounted price. That place is going to be the safest/cleanest place in the world until everyone forgets what happened.
I also have to give the owner credit for just not giving a fuck. Shaking off a spoon from some kid making minimum wage to mix food with your arm is a vicious mix of being humble and an Alpha. For all the shit people give Portnoy, the dude was in the trenches fighting Nazis a couple of weeks ago for a blog he didn’t write despite being a millionaire. That only made me want to work harder for the guy. I imagine that Carl’s Jr. was humming like a finely tuned machine while this savage owner was busting his dick off in the kitchen until that whistleblower snitch Andrew Minnes ratted on him.